Pro 23:17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou
in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
We spend way too
much time envying sinners.
First all. We do NOT
like to call anyone a sinner. Yet there in God's word we are told NOT to let
our hearts envy sinners.
To do that we have
to recognize sinners.
I'm a sinner. We are all sinners, yes? All of us are in
need of forgiveness. And truthfully we should envy NO ONE. Right? This is truth.
Pro_14:30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but
envy the rottenness of the bones.
Envy the ROTTENNESS
of the bones.
Pro_27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but
who is able to stand before envy?
Worse than cruelty
and anger is ENVY!
Mar_15:10 For he knew that the chief priests had
delivered him for envy.
Jesus was delivered
to be killed because of ENVY and Pilate knew this.
Act_13:45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they
were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by
Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
ENVY, the Apostles
had to deal with the envy of the Jews.
Tit 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish,
disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and
envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Tit 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God
our Saviour toward man appeared,
Tit 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have
done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration,
and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Tit 3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus
Christ our Saviour;
Tit 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should
be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
We can ONLY hope to
be washed, regenerated, renewed by the Holy Spirit and in that hope that our
evil sinning traits are done away with. We must be justified by our SAVIOR.
Envying
sinners.
Envying anyone is
WRONG.
We cannot judge the
sins of others, only God is the judge and can grant eternal life, as He knows
the hearts of all. We can look at the lives of others and those in blatant
sinning and know God would not have us stealing, lying, hating, murdering,
breaking the Sabbath, committing adultery, etc. And still we cannot judge the
end of any person.
To envy is to desire
something that you don't have, to desire to be someone else, wikipedia says
this-
'Envy
Envy is an emotion which "occurs when a person
lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires
it or wishes that the other lacked it" Bertrand Russell said that envy was
one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.
Pasted
from <https://www.google.com/search?q=envy&rlz=1C1AVNC_enUS596US596&oq=envy+&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1922j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8>
'
How often do we find
ourselves envying?
In the world we live
in it has become NORMAL to envy. We taking envying as a means to spur us to get
more, to change and we call it good.
It is so incredibly
easy to get caught up in envying and it will happen inevitably when we live for
this world.
Seriously.
The only way to
avoid envy is to live for eternal life, not for this temporary life. We are to
put our treasures in heaven- all of them. We need to live for the second coming
of our Savior not for this world, this life.
Only by the grace of
God is this possible! Only by His mercy,
His love!
More on this
tomorrow by the love of our Father, our Savior, and the Holy Spirit.
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